Managing Firewalld on CentOS/RHEL 7 – start/stop/status-check

Hey, I’m new here and unable to manage my Firewall daemon on my server/VPS. The OS is reloaded with latest CentOS 7.

Yeah, it’s a little bit new, managing services on CentOS/RHEL 7 servers. The daemon for iptables is firewalld and it’s not listed under the directory, /etc/init.d. But we can simply manage this feature from the location/script “/bin/systemctl.” Here I’m explaining the commands to manage, which includes start/stop/status for the firewall daemon on the CentOS 7 server.

We already discussed about the basics of Iptables in linux. We can call, it’s the basics of Firewall for Linux. Iptables is a rule based firewall system and it is normally pre-installed on a Unix operating system which is controlling the incoming and outgoing packets. By-default the iptables is running without any rules, we can create, add, edit rules into it.For more details, please check this tutorial >> What is iptables in Linux <<

These instructions are intended specifically for managing firewalld CentOS/RHEL 7.